lowing day. The plants from the Bruce Mines were obtained on (he 24th July and 28th 

 August. We visited the small island at the east end of St. Joseph on July 28th, and 

 Hay Point, on the south side, on the 1st September. 



Drummond Island, the next to the east of St. Joseph, by a northward curve in the inter- 

 national boundary line, is included in the territory of the United States. The level of this 

 island is lower thnn that of the oiheis, and the land is, in a large extent, flat and marshy, 

 the trees being for the most part small balstms, tamaracks, and spruces. On the north 

 side the island is more hilly than on the south, and on that side heavier forests are met 

 with than on the south, the prevailing trees being hard maple, beech, basswood, iron-wood* 

 balsam-fir, poplar and white cedar, with some while pine. In some places the flat lime- 

 stone rocks come to the surface, and support only a sparse, stunted growth of firs, with 

 patches of moss and lichen between ; while in others a dense thicket of firs and shrubs 

 covers a swamp or borders a rivulet. 



The plants obtained from the south-west corner of Diummond Island were collected 

 between the 31st July and 2nd August, and those from the south-east corner on the 4th 

 August ; while the collections from Sidgrave Cove, on the north side of the island, were 

 made on the 9th August, and those from Vermont and .Medford Harbours, on the north- 

 west part, on the 30th and 31st August. 



From the lake the aspect of the land on Drummpnd and Cockburn Islands is quite dif- 

 ferent. High land, covered witli hard-wood, runs through the centre of Cockburn Island, 

 which lies between Drummond and the Grand Manitoulin, having on the west side of it 

 the False De'our Channel, and on the east the Straits of Mississagui. Towards the shore 

 of the island, firs are most numerous. The whole of the forest on this island is much 

 heavier than that of its more level neighbour. The eastern side of the island is undulat- 

 ing or hilly, the valleys running in a south-westerly direction. The most notable charac- 

 teristic of the forest on this island is the quantity of red pine (Finus resinosa) which 

 occurs in it. Few of the trees seen of this species were very large, but in places they are 

 very numerous (particularly in the bay to the east of the south-west point of the island), 

 and large enough for making into timber for frames of houses. 



Collections of plants were made in this island at the following dates: — South-west 

 point of the island, August G'h ; interior and n irth part of the island, August 6th and 

 7th; Thompson's Point, August 11th; Sandy Bay, north side, August 13ih ; McLeod's 

 Harbour and Huronia Point, on the east side, August 21st; Little Cockburn Island, in 

 the False Detour Channel, August 5th 



Cape Smyth, at the east end of the Grand Manitoulin Inland, was visited on the 1 7th 

 July, and G'>re Bay, on the north side of the same island, on the 15th August. The for- 

 est south of Gore Bay resembles very much that of Cockburn Island. A good many 

 white-pine trees were seen to the south-west of Gore Bay, and red pine occurs towards 

 Lake Kagewong, and also at the west end of the island. Fires have passed through a 

 large exient of the woods to the south and south-east of Gore Bay, killing the trees and 

 causing them to fall. Lying across one another, two or three deep, the interspaces filled 

 up with brushwood and a rank growth of willow-herb (Epilubium anguslifulium), which 

 alwavs abounds in these bru/6*, these bare and charred trees form an almost impassable 

 barrer to the explorer. The marsh at the foot of Gore Bay, and the high cliffs on its 

 eastern side, afforded a number of rare plants. 



Mississagui Islaud is small, flat, and sandy, with two marshy ponds in its centre, and 

 lies to the north of the straits of the same name. Part of it is covered with trees, and 

 the rest is made up of sand-reaches partially covered with vegetation. It was visited on 

 the 22nd July. 



William Island' of the charts (locally known as Whiskey Island), at the mouth of 

 Wequemakong Bay, east end of Grand Manitoulin, was touched at on July 18th and Sep- 

 tember lath. This island, like many in the neighbourhood, is low and flat, and is all 

 wooded, with the exception of an open sandy space at its western extremity, on which I 



